Wonderful. I wonder if I've read it before. I don't remember it, but it would be in my anthology of her work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
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Wonderful. I wonder if I've read it before. I don't remember it, but it would be in my anthology of her work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill
'He is so unpopular, if he became a funeral director, people would stop dying.'
-Late MP Tony Banks on ex PM John Major
The never-ending and very tiresome debate (on another site I frequent) about the "The TRUTH revealed by Dan Brown in 'The Da Vinci Code'!!!!11!!" today made me look up this quote from "Foucault's Pendulum". I take comfort in it. As I do in most things written by Eco.
Quote:
"A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn't know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn't concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
(Umberto Eco)
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
-- Lord Byron, Don Juan
'I have nothing to declare but my genius.'
Oscar Wilde (Irish Dramatist) at New York Custom House
Everett Hale (1822-1909), American author and Unitarian minister:
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American Poet-Doctor wrote:
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
That is what I believe in with all my heart. Must be why I always feel tired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Digital I love the Seinfeld ones about the mirror and the dogs. The best.
Nelson Mandella:
a good head and a good heart are a formidable combination
If you want to make peace with your enemy then you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
As we are liberated from our own fears our presence automatically liberates others.
I found a site with quotes, they're basically quotes on virtues:
"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
Adel Bestavros
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Winnie the Pooh (By Milne)
"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice." "
Woodrow T. Wilson
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Thomas Paine
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion."
Pythagoras
"None is richer than he who simply has peace of mind"
Maj Wambebe
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."
Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour 1810-1861, Piedmontese Statesman, Premier
"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
Lao-tzu
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"When we pray with a heart full of devotion, God accepts it and we receive blessings in return."
St. Gregorious Geevarghese
"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king."
Horace
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. "
Wayne Dyer
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
The Bible-I Corinthians 13:4-8
"We need not think alike to love alike."
Francis David
"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
Aesop
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Henry David Thoreau
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
"The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can."
Seneca
"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."
Jacob Bronowski
"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
Dalai Lama
"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
Francis Bacon
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
Henry Ward Beeche
and vices:
"Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature."
Sivananda
"Behold the vain man, and observe the arrogant; he clotheth himself in rich attire, he walketh in the public street, he casteth round his eyes, and courteth observation. He tosseth up his head, and overlooketh the poor; he treateth his inferiors with insolence, his superiors in return look down on his pride and folly with laughter."
Akhnaton
"A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap."
Abraham Lincoln
"One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on."
Dalai Lama
"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."
Chinese Proverb
"Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them."
Jennifer James
"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly."
Eugene O'Neill
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
Mary Schmich
"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."
Elizabeth O'Connor
and here's a little something from me:
"How sad it can be when a man picks out the most wonderful rose he's ever seen for his marvelous wife, one that he believes summarizes her beauty thoroughly, yet, when looking at itself in the mirror, it thinks itself to be the ugliest of them all"- Me :)
LMAO - Grooms everywhere would be going ~*Poof*~Quote:
9. Jerry Seinfeld: The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same, so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy. (Edit)
The truth is often funny.
Time for another quote. I have this one framed and on my desk at work:
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
The truth is often funny
I’m afraid I don’t know much about Thomas Jefferson and, while this isn’t my favourite quotation, it raises a smile:
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone."
JFK to his Nobel Prize winning guests
"Three can keep a secret if two of them die." - Roosevelt
"Oh yeah? Well I like lemons, what else ya got?!"- A.I
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself"- Hermann Hesse
"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it" (don't remember)
"Smile. It confuses people." (don't remember too)
"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."- Woody Allen.
Wit is cultured insolence. -Aristotle
I just love that.
This is a piece from the Fountainhead, this is the conversation that a 12 year old, i believe, has with his sunday school teacher.
Quote:
The Sunday school teacher read from the Bible "What shall man truely profit, if he were to gain all the riches of the world, but lose his soul." The young man replied "So in order to be truely wealthy, man should collect souls".
I agree. The dude is hilarious!Quote:
Originally Posted by mxmastermike
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
That's mine; I don't have a literature quotation yet.
Cicero was mentioned in a different thread. He's one of the truely great men of history: lawyer, statesmen, philospher, moralist, orator, writer. I won't say he's forgotten today, but he certainly isn't prominant enough. Here's a quote from him:
"Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
"There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Oscar Wilde
"Polititians are always there when they need you"
"There are only three types of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists or bad pianists"- Horowitz
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-Winston Churchill
I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
I'm forever walking upon these shores
Betwixt the sand and the foam
Khalil Gibran
well, apart from the ones in my signature...
"Only two things are infinite: the Universe, and human stupidity... and I am not sure about the first one" (Albert Einstein)
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
(Albert Camus)
Oh, sweeet glorious caffine, how I have missed your bitter kiss! ... er, I mean "Good Morning!"
"Loud" is never a suitable substitute for "Right"
and others I use as random quote of the day in my website ;)
" "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from) "
Thoreau "Where I lived and what I lived for" from "Walden, or Life in the Woods"
Thanks ;) I can never remember it :)
i dont know the authors of my favorite quotes, but here they are:
"Destiny is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance",
"Life isnt measured by every breath you take, but by every moment that takes your
breath away"'
this one is by Harvey Mackay, "The one person who is always happy to teach you a
lesson is a tough competitor',
And of course those "in your face, smart-*** "comments from "No fear", like
"history is made by those who break the rules",
"Its not that life's too short, you've been dead for too long",
It comes from Walden Pond, Henry David Theorou (spelling incorrect). I believe it's on the opening page.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whifflingpin
A few favs:
The cloud capp'd Towers,
The glorious palaces,
the solemn temples,
the great Globe itself shall dissolve,
and, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
leave not a rack behind.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.
--Shakespeare originally, Prospero's speech near the end of The Tempest. But I first heard it when I sang it-- #3 in Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Three Shakespeare Songs". I hear the music even as I type the words, despite the fact that it's been five years since I sang the piece.
And, so long as we are on Williams' appropriations of poets' texts, I shall add another:
"WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:"
--Whitman originally. Now, part of Williams' _Dona Nobis Pacem_. And everything-- EVERYTHING-- in this movement is a set up for the final resolution: this... soil'd... ... world. (I wish I knew enough about chords to describe it more effectively to the musicians out there).
That was awesome, thankyou.
I am sorry that my quote is not as lofty but it is 'food' for thought.
"Don't eat fruit and nuts, you are what you eat" Jim Davis
Time for a new quote: Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)is filled with great quotes. Here's one to wake up to:
Quote:
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
Here's my quote:
"I feel as though my life is a bad dream, and I often wonder whose it is and whether they are enjoying it."
to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
- i think that was richard henry lee....
''manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
ko so pod svetlim soncem sužni dnovi!''
-France Prešeren (Krst pri Savici)
Translation:
''Less terrifying is the night
Within the folds of the black soil
Than days of enslavement
Under the shinning sun''
One from the greatest Slovenian poet!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gehenna
I got a couple:
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." ~Frank A. Clark
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." ~Michel de Montaigne
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." ~Benjamin Disraeli
"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal." ~Horace
"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most." ~Ashleigh Brilliant
"Humility, that low sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot." ~Thomas Moore
also... that "Smile, it confuses people" and the one above it are from shirts
"every man is responsible for all the good he didn't do"
or something like that
Voltaire